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The death gap : how inequality kills / David A. Ansell, MD.

By: Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017Description: xviii, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226428154 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Preface: one street, two worlds -- American roulette. American roulette -- Structural violence and the death gap -- Location, location, location -- Perception is reality -- The three Bs: beliefs, behavior, biology -- Trapped by inequity. Fire and rain: life and death in natural disasters -- Mass incarceration, premature death, and community health -- Immigration status and health inequality -- Health care inequality. The US health care system: separate and unequal -- The poison pill: the Affordable Care Act -- The cure. Community efficacy and the death gap. -- Community activism against structural violence -- Observe, judge, act.
List(s) this item appears in: Culturally Competent Healthcare
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Book NMC Library Stacks RA418.3 .U6 A57 2017 1 Available 33039001427060

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-222) and index.

Preface: one street, two worlds -- American roulette. American roulette -- Structural violence and the death gap -- Location, location, location -- Perception is reality -- The three Bs: beliefs, behavior, biology -- Trapped by inequity. Fire and rain: life and death in natural disasters -- Mass incarceration, premature death, and community health -- Immigration status and health inequality -- Health care inequality. The US health care system: separate and unequal -- The poison pill: the Affordable Care Act -- The cure. Community efficacy and the death gap. -- Community activism against structural violence -- Observe, judge, act.